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<h1>Welcome to HydroDesktop Help<a class="headerlink" href="#welcome-to-hydrodesktop-help" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Welcome to the help system for HydroDesktop. This help system provides comprehensive documentation for all aspects of using HydroDesktop, as well as complete walkthroughs for performing example use cases.</p>
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<h2>About HydroDesktop<a class="headerlink" href="#about-hydrodesktop" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>HydroDesktop is a free and open source desktop application developed in C# .NET that serves as a client for CUAHSI HIS WaterOneFlow Web services data and includes data discovery, download, visualization, editing, and integration with other analysis and modeling tools.  By communicating with WaterOneFlow, HydroDesktop gives the user access to rich hydrologic datasets that have been published using this Web service standard.</p>
<p>The HydroDesktop source code is hosted on Codeplex at <a class="reference external" href="http://hydrodesktop.codeplex.com/">http://hydrodesktop.codeplex.com/</a>.  For more information about CUAHSI HIS, see the HIS Web site at <a class="reference external" href="http://his.cuahsi.org/">http://his.cuahsi.org/</a>.</p>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="version-history.html#release-1-1-beta-390-jan-26-2011">Release 1.1 Beta 390 (Jan 26, 2011)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="version-history.html#release-1-1-beta-342-dec-9-2010">Release 1.1 Beta 342 (Dec 9, 2010)</a></li>
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<p>In addition to this help system, you can find documentation at <a class="reference external" href="http://hydrodesktop.codeplex.com/documentation">http://hydrodesktop.codeplex.com/documentation</a>.</p>
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